Iron County register., 1887-04-28

The Jesuits IN Canada are preparing 10
contend stubbornly for the restitution of
their confiscated estates,
A SHARP shock of earthquake was ex-
perienced on the 21st over the whole of
the island Of Jersey. The tremor pro-
was done.
THE National Academy of Sciences, in
session at Washington, elected three new
members on the 21st. The scientists thus
honored are Prof. Bowditch, of Harvard; !;
Prof Mendenhall, of Terre Haute, Ind,
and Prof. George h. Cook, of Brunswick
Ga.
SECRETARY LAMAR has rescinded an
order issued some time ago, directing a
suspension of survey of land in the Turtle
Mountain reservation in Dakota, and in a
new order directs continuance Of the
survey.
MAJOR F. W. BENTON, of the Ninth
cavalry, was recently sentenced by a
court-martial to be dismissed from the SER
vice for drunkenness. The President has
commuted the sentence to one years sus-
pension from rank and duty on half pay.
JUSTICE WOODS, of the United States
Supreme Court, is seriously i'll at Kansas
City, Mo.
THE Apache Indians are to be removed
from Fort Marion, Fla, to Mount Vernon,
Ala.
A HURRICANE swept over portions of
Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas on the
22d A large number of people are re-
ported killed, many injured, and vast
amount Of property destroyed.
STARTLING developments of fraud are
made in the legislative investigation of
Michigan assessment insurance COM
panies.
THE Interstate Commerce Commission
expected to leave Washington on the 25th
for short trip to the South, going to
Mobile, New Orleans, Memphis, etc.
ARCHBISHOP CoRRIaAN has "warned"
the Catholic Herald to cease it's defense of
Dr. McGlynn and criticisms unfavorable
to those who removed him.
THE Comptroller of the Currency has
declared a dividend of twenty-five per
cent in favor of creditors of the First
National Bank of Pine Bluff, Ark.
FRANK M. SCoTT, the book-keeper of
S101, ,S45, received a sentence Of six years
on the 22d.
THE total number of trade dollars re-
deemed up to the 22d was 5,243,OO which
number will be incread 400, 900 by recent
importation at San Francisco from China.
Mr.. ANDREW CARNEGIE, the millionaire,
of Pittsburgh, Pa, was united in mar
riage on the 22d to Miss Louise Whitfield,
eldest daughter of Mrs. Fanny d. Whit
fld, at the residence of the brides mother,
in New York. They left for European
tour on the steamship Fulda.
A GREAT flood was raging in the st.
Lawrence river on the 22d, and part of
Montreal was inundated.
Two counterfeiters, Michael Hammer
and James Fox, have been captured at
indianapolis.
WOLF PINK, Polish pawnbroker, was
enticed from his place of business at Lead
City, Oak, on the 22d, and while he was
out his place was robbed of s2,50) in
jewelry. Five men have been arrested on
suspicion.
BEN RICHARDSON, who owns about half
of Harlem, and is several times miili on
aire, is the man who was re Gently swindled
by the s'gold brick trick" in New York.
The gilded copper bars which he thought
were worth $4,000 are now at the assay
Office on exhibition.
FREIGHT train going west on the
Grand Trunk railway went through the
bridge over Nash's creek, near Morris
burg, Ont, on the 22nd The engineer
and fireman were killed and brakeman
was badly injured. Thirteen loaded cars
were piled into the gorge and smashed to
atoms.
cHoRIsTER in the Military Academy
church at st. Petersburg committed sui
eide on the 21st by jumping from win
dow of his house. On being searched the
house was discovered to be Nihilist rem
devious. a quantity of dynamite, arms
and revolutionary documents were found.
SAMUEL D. CONNER, a wealthy gentle
man, owner of considerable mining prop
erty in the West, principally in Colorado,
and step-son of General William Lilly,
of Carson County, Pa, committed suicide
in the Monument cemetery, Philadelphia,
on the 22d, by shooting himself through
the heart. He had been married the day
previous.
THE overdue steamer Salerno arrived
at Queenstown on the 22d in tow. She
broke her propeller March 81, within
eight hundred miles of New York, for
which port she was bound, and was COM
PEELED to take the back track by adverse
winds.
WIN. B. MITCHELL, president of the Ex-
change Bank, of Detroit, Mich, has disap-
peared with all the funds of the concern,
leaving an anxious lot of creditors and
depositors behind him.